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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden meets in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (PTI Photo)

Saeed Naqvi | PM to return from US with global power play compass

The nuclear deal of 2015 conferred on Tehran the kind of legitimacy that was to have enabled it to balance power in the...

25 Sept 2021 6:44 AM IST

The bill, as it stands now, states that if the bride is under 18 and the bridegroom is under 21, their parents must register the marriage within 30 days of the event .

Patralekha Chatterjee | Child marriage law in Raj: Why is civil...

Ironically, a BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh had once publicly pushed the cause of early marriages

23 Sept 2021 11:40 PM IST

Taliban fighters gather along a street during a rally in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)

Anita Anand | Afghans, world should just wait for the Taliban to...

While Afghanistan was the base for Al-Qaeda, the attackers were not Afghans

23 Sept 2021 11:25 PM IST

Amartya Sen. (File Photo: PTI)

Devi Kar | How Amartya's memoirs hold some valuable lessons for life

The great advantage is that Prof. Sen writes lucidly about a stupendous range of topics and ideas that a general reader...

23 Sept 2021 12:40 AM IST

President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Indranil Banerjie | Europe needs rethink as Atlantic divide widening

The French received no hint the deal was about to be broken and put the blame squarely on the United States

23 Sept 2021 12:14 AM IST

The incident took place on Monday when Charanjit Singh Channi had called 37 mechanical lecturers for giving them their posting orders. (Photo: PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dalit CM in Punjab poses a real challenge...

The devious games inside the Congress Party are too well known, and they are past lamentation

22 Sept 2021 2:27 AM IST

Chief Justice Ramanas strictures on police methods and condemnation of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code on sedition apply to all three nations, not just India, where the tragedy of the late Father Stan Swamy heaped shame and disgrace on the authorities. (Twitter)

Dilip Cherian | Govt bends to apex court over filling vacancies in law...

An unprecedented new situation has developed at the secretary-level in the Narendra Modi sarkar

22 Sept 2021 1:23 AM IST

According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, the unemployment rate was recorded at 6.9 per cent in February 2021 which is slightly better than 7.8 per cent in the same month last year and 8.8 per cent in March 2020, during which lockdown was imposed. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

Aakar Patel | Poverty on the rise, jobs begin to vanish: Will India...

MNREGA guarantees 100 days of employment in the year at Rs 200 per day to each registered household

21 Sept 2021 2:56 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Why the Congress needs an alternative to Modi

It is no wonder then that Narendra Modi's rise is seen as merited and Rahul Gandhi's ascension as unmerited

21 Sept 2021 1:53 AM IST

Anil Anand | Pushback against Azad casts cloud on Cong unity in poll-bound J-K

Anil Anand | Pushback against Azad casts cloud on Cong unity in...

While Mr Azad felt it could have positive ramifications for the Congress in the days to come, local Congress leaders...

20 Sept 2021 7:35 AM IST

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. (Photo: Twitter/@DrSJaishankar)

Sanjaya Baru | India's multi-alignment' and the Jaishankar Way

The US is emphasising its continued relevance to the Indo-Pacific and India is hedging against future US...

20 Sept 2021 7:28 AM IST

UP CM Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

Pavan Varma | Abbajaan! The basest lingo taints our faith

People like Adityanath also seem to be motivated by the focused goal of setting one religious community against another

19 Sept 2021 3:28 AM IST